Warning: If you’re a fan of coffee, this article is not likely for you. So I have this tree which drops so many small brown things, when they’re collected they look like coffee grounds. I’m so impressed with how much the droppings look like coffee grounds, I felt obliged to do something with them. Being …
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The day the magic school bus was frozen to the parking lot
It was the longest cold spell in Walkerville history. All the kids were excited that the schools were closed. All the kids, except the ones who were supposed to go on a field trip. Their bus was the only way they could get around to places like Hawaii and Pompeii. And why did they want …
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Happy New Robot Year!
The new lunar year starts on the 17th and, according to the Chinese Zodiac, it’s the year of the robot horse. Where’s yours? Do you have a robot horse? Do you even have a robot? If not, it’s time you started asking for one. How else are you going to get your own robot? Certainly …
Year of the Robot
Forget everything you know about the zodiacs. It’s not the year of the tiger or the wolf, the yew tree or the Dodge Ram. It’s the year of the robot. Here’s a gigantic clue for the computer programmers of the world: WE, THE PEOPLE OF EARTH, DON’T WANT ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, WE WANT ROBOTS. Robots are …
Logic ladders
If a person thinks everyone should just turn off their cars and stop “idling”, then obviously the next step is also to stop driving slowly. Driving slowly is as close as it gets to running a car “in idle”. The next step would be deciding at what speed a car could not be mistaken as …
